With the continuous growth of mobile market, many firms are considering investing in mobile apps. Through the lens of stock market reaction, we find that on average public firms experience a negative abnormal stock return on the day when they release their first mobile app and mobile app...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have introduced great changes into our personal and professional lives. Although the debate over the benefits of ICTs (and how to measure them) still lingers (Remenyi, Money, and Bannister, 2007), there is a general consensus that ICTs have...

Data provided by 7380 middle managers from 60 nations are used to determine whether demographic variables are correlated with managers’ reliance on vertical sources of guidance in different nations and whether these correlations differ depending on national culture characteristics. Significant...

This research adopted the relational risk perspective to understand why people choose to avoid conflicts rather than confront conflict. The interest-focused paradigm, which has long dominated the conflict resolution, assumes that disputing parties tend to maximize their self-interest, but...

Disagreements are typically viewed from a harmony perspective in East Asia, whereas they are viewed from a conflict perspective in the West. Harmony models developed with reference to the Chinese cultural context suggests that conflict avoidance represents vigilant, effortful attempts to...

This study compared the cross-cultural formation and reactions toward overall fairness perception of employees from the US, China, Korea, and Japan. Distributive justice was related to overall fairness less strongly for Americans and Japanese than for Chinese and Koreans. In contrast,...

This study compares East Asians' evaluations of task and maintenance inputs in reward allocation decisions and examines the effects that inequity in various types of inputs and rewards have on fairness judgements. Based on a sample of 587 employees from various organizations in Hong Kong, Japan,...

Purpose: To examine whether and how temporal changes in fairness perceptions are associated with employee attitudes beyond the influence of the current fairness perceptions. Design/Methodology/Approach: A two-wave longitudinal longitudinal design was used. Data were collected from current...

Value incongruence between employees and organizations has been identified as a negative work condition. An attitude-based account suggests that value incongruence gives rise to negative attitudes toward organizations and thus causes low performance. To complement this mechanism, we propose a...